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Orthodoxy

CHAPTER IX
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The best human experience is against me, as it is on the subject of Bach.

Celibacy is one flower in my father's garden, of which I have not been told the sweet or terrible name.

But I may be told it any day.
This, therefore, is, in conclusion, my reason for accepting the religion and not merely the scattered and secular truths out of the religion.

I do it because the thing has not merely told this truth or that truth, but has revealed itself as a truth-telling thing.

All other philosophies say the things that plainly seem to be true; only this philosophy has again and again said the thing that does not seem to be true, but is true.


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